A jury has found an Ohio woman guilty in the fatal stabbing of a 3-year-old boy as he sat in a grocery cart outside a supermarket in suburban Cleveland.

Bionca Ellis, of Cleveland, will be sentenced on Oct. 27 by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John Russo, who can choose between life in prison with or without the opportunity for parole. The 34-year-old woman has been held in jail on a $5 million bond since being indicted by a grand jury last year.

Ellis was found guilty on Wednesday — after a weeklong trial — on nine criminal counts, including aggravated murder, felonious assault, child endangering and aggravated theft, for the June 3, 2024, attack that killed Julian Wood and left his mother injured, according to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O'Malley's office.

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